Moved along getting bashed and put down by alot of people... or being flamed.

I stuck to my gole to become a pally tank, on my server Boulderfist. I never thought it was possible but then i started learning the facts and stats behind tanking and it came clear.

I eventully got anough gear to start into karazan with my guild, They let me tank the odd mob here and there , and i was very pleased.

Got a few peices out of kara and finaly became *Uncrushable* This is when things changed, i was maintanking bosses i was offtanking bosses... It was all there, when people needed a tank they didnt mind asking me to come cause they seen it happen.

Now im tanking in SSC , Just tanking mobs but still, Tanking... it works its way up the list. If you want to tank bosses start with the trash.

Last night on vashj we were doing great, no deaths end of p2, 2 naga's still up which I'm tanking, warrior on vashj, then all of a sudden -> splat, warrior down, I taunt vashj, pop an ironshieldpot stoneform, and shortly after that lay on hands, we down the naga's shortly after and stabilize the fight, every single stun she did got grounded by our resident elemental shaman and we ended up killing flawlessly (no more deaths etc :>), basicly we got through a sure wipe scenario because holy shield has 8 charges, felt great to be a tonkadin that time! Also doing that removed the last doubts some of my guild members had about paladin tanks (I hope!).

Finally, for the love of god I am 100% totally, undeniably, go to hell completely done with frigging Karazhan.

Finally go the Wrynn Dynasty Greaves tonight. To put it in perspective, I've run kara enough times to have all 3 sets of the T4 from Kara ( ) before this drop and I've run about two different sets of guild alts all the way through. Of course with my luck, Fathom Lord will finally drop Champion tomorrow night now.

Yeah, I burned through 5 Petrified Lichen Guards, though a couple had a little durability left. Could probably cut the number down if I had shield spikes on all of them, but I was being cheap.

On my successful attempt, I had the buffs shown in the pic (BoSanc I found to cut incoming dmg by half, which is very useful when she stuns you). I also used my Sun Eater with mongoose, because I wasn't doing too much holy damage (top 3 damage sources were Spore Cloud, BoSanc, then melee), and the avoidance, dps, and high attack speed of that sword were great.

I personally wouldn't try it without my Figurine of the Colossus. Reserve its use for when she's in were-panther form; that's really the only time I took damage. When she was in caster form I used JoW/SoR (to try to kill her faster), and when she was gone I just used JoL/SoL to regen.

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Every fight is like Sartura, only without the screaming and the dying.

Ills wrote:Yeah, I burned through 5 Petrified Lichen Guards, though a couple had a little durability left. Could probably cut the number down if I had shield spikes on all of them, but I was being cheap.

On my successful attempt, I had the buffs shown in the pic (BoSanc I found to cut incoming dmg by half, which is very useful when she stuns you). I also used my Sun Eater with mongoose, because I wasn't doing too much holy damage (top 3 damage sources were Spore Cloud, BoSanc, then melee), and the avoidance, dps, and high attack speed of that sword were great.

I personally wouldn't try it without my Figurine of the Colossus. Reserve it's use for when she's in were-panther form; that's really the only time I took damage. When she was in caster form I used JoW/SoR (to try to kill her faster), and when she was gone I just used JoL/SoL to regen.

Hmm, my personal success came before TBC really...I got TF, started building tank gear, and then slowly turned the entire server palatank friendly, or at least palatank accepting. Had a lot of interesting whisper conversations though, *random player thinks to self* "Hey, that warriors got Judgement shoulders. *ponders*. WTF??".

The first thing I officially MT'd was Golemagg in MC. I had Zulian Defender (ZG blue caster shield), 4/5 Deathbone (scholo), a variety of other blues and Judgement pieces. The rest of the guild outgeared the instance, but I didn't in my tank gear. My successfully doing this probably turned the opinions of the guild the most.

Then it went onto saving wipes at broodlord, firemaw, even nefarian, in my crap blue gear. Back when TF had its threat per proc value massive, and when SoR used to proc extra TF procs, my threat was insane, I couldn't attack a lot of the time else I would have not been able to control the threat. My finest moment pre TBC was probably leading the tanks on trash in Naxx. I had a variety of non warrior specific tank gear from AQ40, including the Blessed Qiraji Bulwark and the wonderful Styleen's Impending Scarab, which I have only just recently replaced <3 (I may end up reequiping it when my avoidance starts to get too high or something, dunno, but like hell am I gettign rid of either of them), and was trash MT for the limited time we were in there.

Soon as patch 2.0 was announced along with Tier 4/5 where you could pick which set you wanted, I think i wet myself. Been waiting for that moment for around 1 year and a half . <3 TBC.

Well, it's a bit late, but on Monday we had a fantastic Nightbane kill. The way I rate Nightbane kills is by Fears Per Transition (FPT). This one was a 0.5 FPT which is pretty damn fantastic, and I <3 all my DPSers for that one.

Hey, new to the forums, new to tanking, new to the class. I've learned alot while lurking.

Anyway, I'll give a little background story before I post my minor sucess. I've played a healer (priest) and two DPS Classes (Shadow Priest and Mage), and you know, you get bored after a while, so I had been thinking of rolling a tank (Warrior, I mean they are best tanks amirite?! =p). So I mention paladin tanking in vent one day, and everyone was like "lol pally tank, yeah right." However, I had rolled a character on one of the servers that were released with the Burning Crusade, so all we had were paladins, and they all tanked fine.

So the reaction from my guild ranges from "I don't know why you're wasting your time" to being hesitant at best. Not to mention I have yet to see a protection paladin do any worthwhile tanking on my server (Altar of Storms). So, I figured I would rise to the challenge (and satisfy that need to play a tank).

So, on to the minor success I had over the weekend.

A warrior whispers me "Hey, want in on BFD? We have a 30 warrior and a 28 druid."

I reply "Sure, I'd prefer to tank, you can DPS if you'd like, but if you need to me heal, that's fine too."

Warrior replies "Well, you're basically here for your rez. And I believe I have the advantage in the tanking department."

/ouch

So, I go along anyway, hard to find groups these days for low level instances. I end up DPS'ing the whole time with my Sword & Board (Lawl). But when we get to the last boss, I tell the warrior I'm gonna fight him for threat. I end up holding aggro on the boss the entire fight, fight goes off without a hitch. Successful run, Warrior says "Wow." Yeah, it's not tanking Illidan, but at least I showed that warrior that it is, in fact, possible for paladin's to tank.

TheCapn wrote:So the reaction from my guild ranges from "I don't know why you're wasting your time" to being hesitant at best. Not to mention I have yet to see a protection paladin do any worthwhile tanking on my server (Altar of Storms). So, I figured I would rise to the challenge (and satisfy that need to play a tank).

Hey, I grew up on AoS before I transferred. Its just a hostile server IMO. But yeah, I was tanking all of Kara before I left.

On Tuesday, I got my T4 tanking shoulders from HKM and my GM crafted me a Belt of the Guardian. On Wednesday, Nightbane was kind enough to drop my shield.

Best of all, I spent no dkp in the process (I already had T4 healing shoulders, we don't charge for vortexes, and Kara isn't on dkp). In the last week I've gained about 1k health (cracked 13k unbuffed), 50 spelldamage, and around 115 block value (which one of my usual heroic healers said made a very noticeable difference in the damage I take).